Process of stitching and tying pamphlets and papers



(No'Moael.) I l `S.,.]EILLI 01"1`. AProcessofS15-itching'amd TyingPamphlets and Papers. No. 237,966.. Patented Feb. 22, |881;-

Inventor:

".FHEHS, PHOTO-LITMOGRAPH En, WASHINGTON, D c.

UNITED STATES- PATENT Ormea.9

STERLING ELLIOTT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PROCESS OF STITCHING AND TYING PAMPHLETS AND PAPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,966, dated February22, 1881.

Application filed November 18, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, STERLING ELLIOTT, a citizen Of the United States,residing at Boston, in the county Ot' Sul'olk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Processot' Stitching and Tying Pamphlets, Papers, Src., and I hereby declarethat the following is a full,

clear, and exact description ot' the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specitication.

The Object of my invention is to so form the knot and stitches as torender them capable Ot being more quickly made than can the presentform, which requires that the thread shall be passed through themateria-l twice foreach stitch, Whereas in my improved method it is onlynecessary1 that the. thread should pass through the lnaterial twice forany number Ot' stitches, as the intermediate Ones are formed by theinterlocking of one part of the thread into the Other through thematerial, as is clearly shown by the drawings.

Figure l shows the rst step to be taken in the formation ot' my improvedstitch, which consists ot' drawing through the material a series oflOOps, the first somewhat longer than the succeeding Ones. This longloop is next doubled upon itself, as shown in Fig. 2. Then a suitablehook is inserted through this doubled loop, pushed forward through allthe intermediate loops, and tinally hooked into the last one, which isthe end of the thread. Upon being withdrawn itis made to carry iwith itthe thread, which leaves the stitch as shown in Fig. 3.

Figs. 5, 6, and 7 showthe Operation of turning the doubled loop to forma square knot,

which is the last loop, through all the other loops, thus forming thestitches and knot at one operation, substantially as shown.

STERLING ELLIOTT.

Witnesses:

ALONZO B. WENTWORTH, H. R. THOMPSON.

